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| Little Free Library |
QLNB continues to take advantage of opportunities to provide quality books for children and adults. This photo is of a river-side little free library in Grand Bay. One constant in our work is our belief that offering choice and easy access to quality books is fundamental to supporting literacy in our communities.
We were also invited to take our storytent to a neighbourhood event; something we have done, with one notable interruption, since 2003. This provides another opportunity to share some great reads and allow children, youth and adults to make their own reading and literacy choices.
Not so long ago, when we ran storytent as a sort of backyard library program offering free access and free choice in this neighbourhood, our research showed children who made use of the program maintained, or even increased, their reading levels over the summer months.1
Over the following years, we explored a variety of ways to support family self-direction and agency;2 a process we eventually described as quality literacy, a distinct application of William Glasser’s Choice Theory.3
This is a something we intend to revisit over the coming months.
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| Setting up for a Fun Days storytent |
1. See, Quality Storytents (Intl. J. of Reality Therapy Fall, 2004) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/12C0BDrooCC1iG-h1ngx5D6rvAW_x1mb4/view?usp=sharing
and Quality Storytents - revisiting Choice Theory and community literacy (2004) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFX9wntVit5vz12IpGCsEuVNVl0qgyJ7/view?usp=sharing
2. See The Bookwagon: A resource (2010) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EGkRBc0NQQ2jT-nV9iSKI9NUTYKAYpl9/view?usp=sharing
and Community Literacy at Christmas (2016) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PvLxAF-E4JIRDOR5A5piWIfrNYndonZC/view?usp=sharing
3. See, Quality Literacy, Choice Theory and Community Literacy (Intl. J. of Reality Therapy Fall, 2016) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/135uZa2_eutiQPMH0EszzSlhoo_oj7rVJ/view?usp=sharing
